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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Christ Receiving the Children and Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print).
Etching, engraving and drypoint, circa 1648. 279x388 mm; 11 1/8x15 1/4 inches, small margins. Biörklund's second state (of 2), with the diagonals on the back and neck of the ass at the far right but before the Baillie rework; Usticke's third state (of 5); White and Boon's second state (of 2); New Hollstein second state (of 3). Strasburg Lily with the countermark IHS watermark (Ash/Fletcher 36 I. c., which they date to around 1644; there is an identical watermark on the impression of this subject in the Art Institute of Chicago; Hinterding notes similar watermarks on other second state impressions of this subject). A very good, well-inked impression, with burr on the back of the woman holding the baby before Christ's outstretched right arm, on the seated woman and kneeling figure with back turned at Christ's feet and throughout the figures to the right of Christ and on the stones in the arch at the far right.
Provenance: Johann Carl Dietrich Hebich, Hamburg, with the ink stamp (Lugt 1250, verso); his estate auction, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, November 15, 1880 (Hebich's estate auction contained more than 400 etchings by Rembrandt). Bartsch 74; Biörklund 49-1; Hollstein (White and Boon) 74; New Hollstein 239.
